With one of these three new options, you’re likely able to get in front of any desired prospect or account with your sponsored content.

In this definitive guide, we’ll explore how to leverage this new targeting on Linkedin and finally make use of the world’s largest professional social network.

Getting started

If you haven’t set up a Linkedin Ads account or lack proper permission to access your company’s account, you’ll need to handle that first.

But before we dive into the new features, let’s quickly brush over what the previous capabilities were.

You can see all of the original targeting options offered by Linkedin, including company name, certain job titles and a few others.

But in the next three sections, we’ll explore the new targeting advancements, how to use them and why B2B marketers are so excited about them.

Account Targeting

Linkedin has 12 million business on its platform. And now, you can truly leverage every single one of them that’s relevant to your business.

Account targeting allows advertisers to upload a list of company names and target the decision makers of these companies.

It’s incredibly simple. All you do is ensure that the first column of your CSV file reads “companyname” (without quotes), and upload the file of company names like this:

Then, Linkedin will match these companies to some of its 12 million business pages. The maximum upload amount is 30,000 companies and the minimum requirement is 30.

Once your file is properly prepared, it only takes a few seconds to upload. Simply click “Create an Audience,” name your audience and then upload

Pro tip: Upload at least 40 companies to ensure that you meet the minimum upload requirement. Although there are 12 million business pages on Linkedin, not all of your accounts will be matched.

Contact List Targeting

It’s much easier to sell to current customers than to find new ones. And with the new contact list targeting option, you can finally do just that. Just upload a list of emails and Linkedin will map out each email to that relative user on the professional network.

Now you can target individual prospects, email subscribers, churned customers and beyond.

These are incredibly similar to Facebook custom audiences, but they require fewer data points and have a much higher match rate due to the nature of corporate emails. From the experiences of industry experts, they’ve found match rates on Linkedin to be around 75 percent, compared with Facebook’s low 20 percent to 30 percent.